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Présentation
À propos de moi
CURRENT MISSION
Get Up!
ABOUT ME
Well, it depends who's asking :P
PHILOSOPHY
Make love, Not war!
and meanwhile, please read a book! :)
Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Sharing is Caring!
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Now and Then!
Centres d'intérêt
Anything Creative and Smart!
- books
- boating
- cycling
Morceaux de musique, films et livres
Too many!
Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue
Make it alive so far!
Enseignez, apprenez, partagez
Mind Over Water (Houghton Miffin, 1998)
Rowers have a word for this frictionless state: swing.
Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: an easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. The swing carries us; we do not force it. We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work. We are not so much swinging as being swung. The boat swings you. The shell wants to move fast: Speed sings in its lines and nature. Our job is simply to work with the shell, to stop holding it back with our thrashing struggles to go faster. Trying too hard sabotages boat speed. Trying becomes striving and striving undoes itself. Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived.
Swing is a state of arrival...
Pays que j'ai visités
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu
Germany, Romania, Sweden, United Kingdom